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Why in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a unique city, in which history, culture, mentality of two worlds – the East and the West – are tolerantly merged

Better result

How to achieve better results, learning Ukrainian through Skype

Learning Ukrainian is a hard work – why must we sit and learn grammar and words? The answer is quite simple – we must not. Human brain is a peculiar thing – it remembers only what is interesting to it. That is why classes need to make one interested in learning, need to motivate a person.

There stands up a second question – how?

Every person has different wants and needs. One needs Ukrainian for travelling, another – for business trips, and it is quite stupid to teach both of them same things. A teacher is needed to coordinate and train student’s skills in language, but the most important thing is that every student should try to achieve something outside language classes. That is why we give you home tasks and reading materials. Will that be enough? Of course if you have plenty of time it is, but unfortunately many of us are limited in time. That’s the reason they asked for our help. 45 minutes+20 minutes of home task ones in two days is really not enough.

Listening skills

Try to watch your favorite movies in Ukrainian. There are plenty of download links on the net. While watching, you will surely attach Ukrainian phrases with ones in your native language, that you’ve heard before, watching this movie in translation. Later on you can start watching movies, you never had seen in your native language. Listen to the Ukrainian -speaking radio on line. You’ll like the result.

Speaking skills

That’s simple. Sing songs. That is simple and pleasant, but it does work! And there are always dozens of phonetic exercises for you on the net.

Reading skills Understanding

Switch your cell into Ukrainian. Get yourself an Ukrainian language version of Windows. Hang an Ukrainian calendar on your wall. Surround yourself with Ukrainian!

Write words and phrases on sheets of paper and put it everywhere you can see them. That’s an old thing, but it works. And finally – read Ukrainian books, newspapers, magazines, blogs – anything you can find and anything that may be just interesting for you.

Writing

Try writing a diary in Ukrainian. You can tell yourself about your lessons, plans, big dates and many other things – just write. I do hope written above had been useful for you and helped you to develop your own ideas of how to learn Ukrainian effectively.